SFU Applied Sciences

👋Starting university is better with a few friendly faces!

Last week, we welcomed incoming undergraduate students at FAS Bootcamp for a day of connection, preparation and community-building activities.

Featuring a Q&A discussion with a panel of professors, a scheduling workshop, meeting with student mentors, students had the chance to get ready for the semester ahead🎒

👉Swipe through for highlights from the day! We can’t wait to see everyone again at Welcome Day this September

Congratulations to SFU School of Computing Science students Ilian Khankhalaev, Artyom Borodovitsyn and Daniil Simonian on winning the Grand Champion (Overall Best Project) award at the VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026! 🏆

Hosted at Microsoft Headquarters in Washington, the team competed alongside experienced technology professionals and took home the top prize with AegisOps – an AI-powered cloud operations platform that helps organizations optimize workloads across Microsoft Azure based on latency, cost, carbon intensity and service availability.

The experience has boosted the team’s confidence in their technical abilities and inspired them to continue developing AegisOps beyond the hackathon. ☁️💻

Congratulations on this incredible achievement 🎉

Last Friday, the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering (MSE) brought innovation in action to the spotlight at its Capstone Project Showcase! 🤖⚙️

Our fourth-year students presented their final prototypes, designed and built over eight months, to students, industry professionals and the public. From healthcare and assistive technologies to autonomous systems and smart agritech infrastructure, this year’s projects tackled a wide range of real-world challenges.

The MSE Capstone Project marks a culmination of students’ undergraduate journeys. By bringing together the technical knowledge, hands-on experience and collaborative skills, students have the opportunity to turn ideas into practical engineering solutions and demonstrate their readiness to take on complex challenges beyond the classroom.

👉Swipe through to revisit highlights from the day

🔗Read more about this year’s projects via https://www.sfu.ca/fas/news-events/news/2026/08/fourth-year-mechatronics-student-showcase-innovative-capstone-pr.html

Discover the engineering around your everyday life 📱🤖

Designed for non-engineers, TEKX 102 introduces fundamental engineering concepts such as systems thinking, system processing and artificial intelligence. Explore the behind-the-scenes of digital media, smart devices that interact with us everyday!

👉 Check out the course offering via https://www.sfu.ca/outlines.html?2026/fall/tekx/102/d100

Ever wondered how a digital design can become a real, physical object? 👀🖨️

Get hands-on with 3D printing and laser scanning in TEKX 101!

Collaborating with the Maker Space initiative at the SFU Library, students will learn the fundamentals of 3D printing, explore computer design tools and use 3D scanners to create digital replicas of existing objects.

🔗Check out the course offering via https://www.sfu.ca/outlines.html?2026/fall/tekx/101/d100

We’re proud to share that the School of Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) has received a six-year accreditation, the highest possible outcome, awarded by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB).

The accreditation recognizes the quality of SEE’s engineering education and its commitment to preparing students to address real-world sustainability challenges.

We look forward to seeing the school continue to grow and make an impact! 🎉

🔗Learn more about this milestone and what it means for the future of SEE via https://www.sfu.ca/fas/news-events/news/2026/07/sfu-s-school-of-sustainable-energy-engineering-reaffirms-excelle.html

See innovation in action at the MSE Capstone Expo 🤖⚙️

Join us to explore student-led projects across areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, assistive technologies, precision agriculture and more.

📅August 7, 2026
⏰10:00 am - 2:00 pm
📍Mezzanine (MEZ), SFU SRYC

Meet the teams and see how their prototypes are addressing real-world engineering challenges!

What does the future of sustainable shipbuilding look like? 🚢🔧

Earlier this month, Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) students from SEE 342 and SEE 230 had the opportunity to tour Seaspan’s JSS1 and JSS2 shipbuilding projects in North Vancouver.

The tour gave students firsthand insights into the shipbuilding process and quality assurance projects, introducing current industry challenges and the engineering behind modern vessel construction.

They also learned about the future vision of Seaspan in adopting alternative fuels and technologies to improve efficiency and reduce environmental impact.

👉Swipe to see the highlights from the tour

Congratulations to Sarah and Mya on receiving the 2026 Schulich Leader Scholarships! 🎉

We're proud to welcome such exceptional future engineers and computing scientists to the Faculty of Applied Sciences and look forward to seeing the impact you'll accomplish in STEM.

Congratulations to Sarah Ye and Mya Periard, SFU’s 2026 Schulich Leader Scholarships recipients!

Sarah has been awarded a $120,000 scholarship to support her journey in engineering science, while Mya has received a $100,000 scholarship to pursue computing science.

The Schulich Leader Scholarships are among Canada’s most prestigious undergraduate STEM scholarships, awarded to exceptional students who demonstrate outstanding leadership, academic excellence, and a commitment to driving innovation.

What does the future of sustainable lithium production look like? ☀️🔋

Congratulations to Sustainable Energy Engineering graduate student Sifat Kawsar on receiving the Graduate Poster Presentation Award at the Canadian Societies for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Conferences and Exhibition (x2026).

His research, “A Techno-economic Analysis of a Photovoltaic Powered Capacitive Deionization Process for Selective Lithium Extraction from Salar Brine”, explores a solar-powered water treatment approach for recovering lithium from high-salinity brine while evaluating its technical and economic feasibility.

By analyzing the key factors that influence the economic viability, Kawsar’s project highlights the potential of this approach as a cost-effective method toward more sustainable battery-grade lithium production.